Workplace Success Principles Create Success At Home
by Tina Rayner, CEO of Rise To Shine Coaching
www.tinarayner.com
Are you a working, “M.O.M.=More Of Me” (than ever before?)
Working moms want to succeed in the workplace AND to succeed as a mom, yet they often find themselves feeling at conflict as working means they have less time and energy to be their idea of a GOOD mom. I suggest working moms end the conflict by not only embracing both worlds as valuable parts of them, but also in utilizing proven success principles at work to create success at home.
The first principle is that successful companies and Moms know that their success comes from duplicating and leveraging systems-not from duplicating and leveraging people. It can be as simple as creating a, “How We…” system (my friends Ray Williams and Stephanie Frank from the Success IQ University teach this system) for every repetitive action at the office and at home. Simply create signs that say for example, “How We Make Coffee” or, “How We Prepare For Dinner” and put the itemized steps/directions down and then post them appropriately in the office, or around the home. Develop systems for every thing you find yourself repeating daily/weekly/monthly as you become aware of something you are doing or saying repeatedly. Then document them. Then teach others in the household or office the system.
The second principle is that successful companies know that no matter what their business is, their product is people. Thus, smart companies know that the more they invest in the development and satisfaction of their people, the more they decrease sick days taken, hiring/firing and the more they increase efficiency, creativity and thus increase the bottom line. The same is true at home. Working moms have a HERstory of putting themselves LAST on the ‘list.’ Moms can most easily invest in themselves by scheduling 30 minimum minutes of daily protected personal time wherein except for an emergency, NO ONE has access to Mom. Schedule this in (otherwise it will never get done) and make it daily. Then, make sure everyone in the house knows when mom’s time is. For small children, you can bring down the clock and tell them that when the big hand gets on the (whatever), that they can come get you. This time can be used for meditation, exercise, reading, or whatever moms know will feed and rejuvenate their mind/body/soul.
The last principle successful companies know is that they must ask, “What are we doing right?” instead of, “What are we doing wrong?” and then to capitalize on and continue to develop and celebrate their strengths instead of worrying about their weaknesses (which can easily be taken care of with joint ventures, or finding some way to delegate them.) The same principle must be applied at home. Moms are traditionally and erroneously expected by society and by moms themselves to be able to, “do it all” well and to be so hard on themselves when they can’t. This obviously causes stress and attracts more of not doing things well. As whatever we focus on expands, moms create more of what they want in life by taking time daily to ask, “What am I doing right?” or, “What am I grateful for?” and to list those and thus capitalize on those strengths and most importantly, to celebrate them. This will absolutely lead to more to celebrate at home and at the office.
It is time for working moms to eradicate the conflict so many feel by using workplace success principles to also create success at home. Then, they can go from being a, “M.O.M.=More Of Me” to being a, “M.O.M.=More Of Magic.”
Tina Rayner is CEO of Rise To Shine Coaching (www.tinarayner.com). She is an entrepreneur, illuminating speaker, and Total Wealth ? coach who resides in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. She comes from a background of over 10 years of coaching experience both nationally and internationally and is a certified trainer with Peak Potentials. She serves as a leader and trainer for a, ‘dynamic global success network’ of business owners and has been featured as a success story in the, Home Business Connection magazine. Through Tina’s, “IN-light-en-ments”, people are able to attract and create what Tina calls, “Total Wealth” or abundance in every aspect of their lives as they learn to let go of the approval they seek to Rise To Shine. If you have connected with Tina’s message and would like to connect with Tina directly for coaching and/or a keynote speech, visit www.tinarayner.com, or call her toll-free 24 X 7 at 888-248-7025. You deserve to Rise To Shine!
